Say Goodbye To Bear411?

This is serious shit that needs your attention immediately. Once again, the government is trying to spy on you in your bedroom. And it needs to be stopped.

The Justice Department is proposing new regulations, under the guise of stopping child pornography, to regulate so-called "adult social networking sites" like Bear411, Bearwww, Biggercity, et al.

It's called SECTION 2257. It would require that sites like Bear411 maintain records, including photo id's, of any person who posts an explicit picture of himself/herself. SECTION 2257 would give the Attorney General the authority to conduct warrantless searches of databases. And, of course, there are no restrictions on how the FBI would use this information.

This would be incredibly burdensome on the operators of the sites, and it would discourage people from joining for fear of having their privacy invaded. It's just plain wrong. Another attempt by the government to control our lives.

Child pornography is an evil thing, and we should do everything we can to stop it. But the government is using child pornography as a smoke screen to try to control websites used by consenting adults to meet other consenting adults.

The Justice Department is accepting public comment until September 10 (MONDAY). Everyone should send an email expressing their disapproval of this regulation, or risk losing sites that we all enjoy. The email address is admin.ceos@usdoj.gov. Your subject line must say "Section 2257 Docket No. CRM 104."